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| Autore principale: | Withers, Charles W.J.
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| Titolo: | Zero degrees : geographies of the prime meridian / Charles W.J. Withers. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard university press, 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | X, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of maps and illustrations. Prologue. Introduction: One line to rule the world. Pt. 1. Geographical confusion: 1. Absurd vanity: the world's prime meridians before c. 1790 2. Declarations of independence: prime meridians in America (c. 1784-1884). Pt. 2. Global unity? 3. International standards? Metrology and the regulation of space and time (1787-1884) 4. Globalizing space and time: getting to Greenwich (c. 1870-1883) 5. Greenwich ascendant: Washington 1884 and the politics of science. Pt. 3. Geographical afterlives: 6. Washington's afterlife: the prime meridian and universal time (1884-1925) 7. Ruling space, fixing time. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780674088818 |
| Discipline: | Terra--Studi. |
| Keyword: | Keywords--Spazio. Keywords--Tempo. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secoli XVII-XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 20818 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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